Gotta love HopeHoop's solution. "Buy the property for $10,000 and let the guy live there." So, it's a gift of $10K. Good luck ever removing them from the property. But, it's not HopeHoops money, is it?
Any mortgage I've been involved with requires you to pay your property taxes into escrow, and the mortgage company pays them. This is so the property doesn't get involved in bullshit like this. It's called protecting their investment. So, I call BS on the bouncy as well.